Liv Boeree Net Worth 2026: $3M-$5M, EPT Title & WSOP Bracelet

Liv Boeree’s net worth is estimated between $3 million and $5 million, built on $6.7M in tracked live earnings, nine years as a PokerStars Team Pro and a science communication career. She is the only woman to win both an EPT Main Event and a WSOP bracelet.

Her $2,800,000 for fourth place at the 2024 WSOP Paradise is the largest tournament cash recorded by a female player. She stepped back from professional poker in November 2019 and now plays only a handful of events.

Her record also includes the 2010 EPT San Remo title, a 2017 WSOP Tag Team bracelet with Igor Kurganov and three GPI European Female Player of the Year awards. Her two TED talks have drawn nearly five million plays on TED.com.

We estimate Liv Boeree’s net worth at $3 million to $5 million. The range starts from $6.7 million in tracked live earnings, then allows for buy-ins, tax, charitable pledges and nine years of undisclosed PokerStars sponsorship income.

She sits fourth on the women’s all-time money list among the most successful women in poker history. Her December 2024 score at WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas moved her past PokerGO commentator and WSOP regular Maria Ho into that spot.

How much is Liv Boeree worth in 2026?

Our 2026 estimate is the range above. The working starts with the Hendon Mob record of $6,699,290 in gross live winnings across 108 cashes, the latest in August 2025.

That is money collected at the cage, not profit. Buy-ins, travel and coaching come off first, tax on a US-taxed payout can exceed 30%, and any staking splits are private.

PokerStars, speaking and podcast income since 2010

Her known income streams include a PokerStars Team Pro contract from September 2010 to November 2019, earlier deals with Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, and speaking work booked through Premiere Speakers.

She also hosts the Win-Win Podcast and has presented science television for Discovery Channel, the Weather Channel and Red Bull TV. None of those fees are public, which is why the range is wide.

Charity pledges: 20% of the Paradise prize, 10% of income

Charity takes a real share of Boeree’s winnings. Those public pledges, together with tax and buy-ins, keep her net position well below her gross earnings.

Boeree’s tracked earnings are concentrated at the top. The eight cashes in the table below account for over 80% of her lifetime total, and the Paradise result alone represents more than 40%.

Prizes are shown in the currency they were paid in, with Hendon Mob’s dollar conversion for San Remo. The Tag Team figure is the full team prize, which she split with Kurganov.

What are Liv Boeree’s biggest tournament cashes?

Two results define the list. The December 2024 Paradise score lifted her tracked total from roughly $3.9 million to nearly $6.7 million in a single tournament.

Before that, the €1,250,000 EPT San Remo title in 2010 was her signature result for more than 14 years. She topped a 1,240-entry field, then a record for an EPT event in Europe, to become the third woman to win an EPT Main Event.

What is the biggest cash by a female poker player?

Boeree’s $2,800,000 at the 2024 WSOP Paradise is the largest single tournament payout recorded by a female player. She finished fourth in the 1,978-entry Super Main Event behind winner Yinan Zhou, Marcelo Aziz and Mustapha Kanit.

The previous high belonged to Wenling Gao, runner-up in the online 2020 GGPoker WSOP Main Event for $2,748,605. Boeree cleared it by just over $51,000, and no woman has topped it since.

The final table also featured Super Main Event finalist Justin Bonomo in seventh and Michael Addamo in sixth. Boeree started the final table fourth in chips and finished in the same position.

Olivia Boeree was born in the Kent village of Hollingbourne and grew up in rural Kent. She attended Ashford School before moving north to the University of Manchester, where she graduated in 2005 with First Class Honours in physics with astrophysics.

At Manchester she played lead guitar in the metal band Dissonance, then joined the gothic rock outfit Nemhain. That background earned her the Iron Maiden nickname at the poker table.

How old is Liv Boeree?

Boeree was born on 18 July 1984. She is 42 years old.

How did Liv Boeree get into poker?

She had never played a hand of poker before 2005. After graduating, she answered a cryptic casting advert for people “willing to use their powers of skill and deception to win money.”

The show turned out to be Ultimatepoker.com Showdown on Five, a reality competition in which five novices were coached by professional players.

Her coaches included Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke and Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott. She did not win the show, but the game stuck, and she began grinding £5 to £50 live tournaments at London’s Gutshot Club.

She won only her second multi-table tournament, a £5 event, for £750. Within three years, 17-time WSOP champion Phil Hellmuth had recommended her to Absolute Poker as a spokesperson, and that 2008 deal launched her professional career.

In May 2008 she won the Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship, taking $30,000 in cash, which Hendon Mob records as a $42,000 prize. It was her first major title, three years after her first hand.

From a satellite seat at EPT San Remo to a $25,000 entry at WSOP Paradise, Boeree’s tournament career spans two decades and 108 cashes.

2009 to 2010: UltimateBet and the EPT San Remo title

Boeree joined UltimateBet as a Team Pro in August 2009, her second sponsorship after Absolute Poker. That spring she turned a €500 satellite into a seat at EPT San Remo.

On 21 April 2010 she won the Main Event from 1,240 entries for €1,250,000, beating Sweden’s Jakob Carlsson heads-up. She was the third woman to win an EPT title, after Vicky Coren and Sandra Naujoks.

PokerStars signed her as a Team Pro in September 2010, the start of a nine-year deal. That autumn she also finished second to Jens Thorson in a £2,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at EPT London for £51,330.

2011 to 2016: PokerStars and three GPI awards

The Black Friday indictments of April 2011 led to UltimateBet’s closure later that year. Boeree had already moved to PokerStars and was unaffected.

Her results in the PokerStars years were steady rather than explosive. She reached six EPT final tables and took third in the 2015 EPT Barcelona €25,500 High Roller for €391,000.

The Global Poker Index named her European Female Player of the Year three years running, from 2014 to 2016. She was also runner-up in the 2014 UKIPT Edinburgh Main Event for £59,180.

2017: WSOP bracelet and Poker After Dark

Boeree won two titles in 2017. At the WSOP she partnered Igor Kurganov in Event #2, the $10,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold’em Championship.

The pair topped a 102-team field and beat Ankush Mandavia and Joe Kuether heads-up for $273,964, split evenly at $136,982 each. Kurganov played most of the final table, and they gave half the prize to Raising for Effective Giving.

In August she won a $25,000 winner-take-all Poker After Dark sit-and-go for $150,000, beating a six-player table that included high-stakes Triton regular Jason Koon, Kurganov and Greg Mueller.

Does Liv Boeree have a WSOP bracelet?

Yes, one: the 2017 $10,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold’em Championship with Igor Kurganov. She is the only woman to have won both a WSOP bracelet and an EPT Main Event.

2018 to 2019: stepping away from PokerStars

By 2018 her focus had shifted towards science communication and philanthropy. In November 2019 she announced on Twitter that she had left Team PokerStars after nine years and was quitting professional poker.

2022 to 2025: the WSOP Paradise comeback

Boeree played sparingly after retiring, with a single WSOP cash in 2022. In July 2024 she cashed the $5,000 8-Handed event at the Las Vegas WSOP for $9,952, then headed to WSOP Paradise in December.

Her fourth place in the Super Main Event there set the record for the largest tournament cash by a woman. In July 2025 she cashed the WSOP Main Event in 645th for $27,500, falling on Day 4, and recorded no cash at the 2025 WSOP Paradise.

Boeree’s approach at the table was shaped by her scientific training. A physics degree built on probability and statistical modelling gave her a framework that carried straight over to poker.

Her game rests on expected value calculations, Bayesian reasoning and disciplined bankroll management. Her TED2018 talk argues for slow, quantified analysis over gut feel in unfamiliar decisions, the same discipline she brought to the felt.

GTO foundations and the 2010 San Remo bluff

For most of her career Boeree leaned towards game-theory optimal play, building her ranges around balanced frequencies. She never played like a pure solver, though.

Heads-up against Jakob Carlsson in San Remo, she ran a king-high bluff that she later broke down for Card Player, built on the read that he raised every button. Carlsson’s verdict, given to the same magazine:

I’m pretty sure I was outplayed in the heads up.
Jakob Carlsson, EPT San Remo runner-up, 2010

The 2024 WSOP Paradise shift to instinct

Her Paradise run broke from that GTO base: she played on instinct rather than charts. Kurganov, the more solver-minded of the two, told her to keep following her gut.

Her solid grounding in poker strategy fundamentals meant she knew which rules she was breaking.

Is Liv Boeree still playing poker?

Boeree has been largely retired from professional poker since November 2019. Science communication, podcasting and philanthropy are now her main work.

Her selective returns have still produced results, from the 2024 Paradise run to a 2025 WSOP Main Event cash. Hendon Mob shows no live cash for her in 2026, and she has not announced a return to a full schedule.

Boeree’s post-poker career centres on science communication. Her knack for explaining hard ideas plainly has made her a regular on TED stages, science television and long-form podcasts.

Two TED talks: TED2018 and TEDAI 2023

In April 2018 Boeree spoke at TED2018 in Vancouver on “3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion.” The six-minute talk covers luck, quantified thinking and when to distrust intuition.

Her second talk, “The dark side of competition in AI,” came at TEDAI in October 2023. It introduces “Moloch’s trap,” a game-theory dynamic she argues now threatens to derail the AI industry.

Speaking bookings run through Premiere Speakers, and in 2015 she spoke at Effective Altruism Global at Google’s headquarters.

What is Liv Boeree’s Win-Win Podcast about?

Win-Win launched in May 2023 with Molly Bloom as its first guest and publishes roughly monthly on Spotify, Apple and YouTube. By April 2026 it had released 57 episodes, some co-hosted with Kurganov.

The show explores game theory, coordination failures and AI alignment through what Boeree calls “Moloch traps,” situations where individual incentives produce collectively bad outcomes. She has also guested on Lex Fridman’s podcast in 2022 and Sean Carroll’s Mindscape in 2018.

Discovery, Red Bull TV and writing for Nature

Before podcasting, Boeree hosted The Mind Control Freaks on Discovery Channel in 2015 and 2016, Weird Earth on the Weather Channel and MindGamers on Red Bull TV in 2017. From 2011 to 2013 she co-hosted the UK and Ireland Poker Tour on Channel 4.

Her science writing has appeared in Vox, Vice and Nature, and she is a patron of Humanists UK. The University of Hull awarded her an honorary Doctor of Science in January 2023.

Boeree has been involved in effective altruism since 2014, when she co-founded Raising for Effective Giving with Igor Kurganov, Philipp Gruissem and Stefan Huber. Her giving has since moved well beyond poker.

She took the Giving What We Can pledge in 2017, committing at least 10% of her income to effective charities. After her Paradise result she pledged $560,000 to fight factory farming.

What was Raising for Effective Giving?

Raising for Effective Giving (REG) encouraged poker players to give part of their winnings to cost-effective charities. It launched at the 2014 WSOP in Las Vegas and ran as a project of the Effective Altruism Foundation.

REG’s track record lists $14 million in donations influenced and 500 donors advised. Players including 2014 world champion Martin Jacobson backed it publicly.

Longview Philanthropy and AI risk since 2020

Since 2020 Boeree has been an ambassador for Longview Philanthropy, which advises major donors on global catastrophic risk. The role covers speaking and online content on longtermism, decision-making and effective giving.

She has raised concerns about AI risk since 2015, and the theme runs through her TEDAI talk and many Win-Win episodes.

Effective altruism after the 2022 FTX collapse

The collapse of FTX in November 2022 damaged the effective altruism movement. Sam Bankman-Fried had been one of its most prominent donors, and his fraud conviction cast a shadow over EA-aligned organisations.

Boeree had no financial link to Bankman-Fried, and REG was running five years before FTX launched in 2019. Her advocacy has continued through Longview and Win-Win.

Boeree lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband Igor Kurganov, having moved there from London. Burning Man, which she has called the couple’s favourite place on earth, is where they married.

Who is Liv Boeree married to?

Boeree married Igor Kurganov at the 2025 Burning Man festival, announcing the wedding on 3 September 2025. They have been together since about 2014 and have partnered in poker, philanthropy and podcasting.

Kurganov is a Russian-born German high-stakes professional with about $19 million in tracked live earnings. He co-founded REG with Boeree and shared the 2017 Tag Team bracelet with her.

He keeps a lower profile but co-hosts some Win-Win episodes. Their partnership puts them among the famous power couples of the poker world.

No live cash appears on Boeree’s Hendon Mob record in 2026, and her last WSOP result was 645th in the 2025 Main Event for $27,500. The table below lists her WSOP cashes since 2022.

The microphone has been busier than the felt. Win-Win reached 57 episodes by April 2026. One of them was an “anti-debate” on AI governance between former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball and AI forecaster Daniel Kokotajlo.

In July 2026 she sat down with Dominic Frisby on The Flying Frisby, in an interview filmed at ARC 2026. She argued there that poker, with its hidden information and luck, is a better model for life than chess.

Her December 2024 Paradise run still anchors her poker record. For wider coverage of the tournament circuit, follow our latest poker news and tournament results.

This player profile separates verifiable facts from estimates and public claims. We cannot accurately calculate any player’s net worth, but we aim to publish transparent, verifiable information.

How we handle ‘net worth’

Our range for Liv Boeree is an estimate, not a disclosed figure. Third-party sites that quote one do not show their method.

We build it from tracked tournament earnings, adjusted for buy-ins, tax and her public pledges. Sponsorship, speaking and podcast income is not publicly quantified, so it widens the range rather than adding a number we cannot source.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings come from the Hendon Mob database. The $6,699,290 figure is gross payouts before buy-ins, travel, tax and any staking arrangements.

We do not treat gross winnings as profit. Team prizes, such as the 2017 Tag Team title, are shown at the full amount recorded before the split.

How we cover controversies

Boeree has no major poker-specific controversies. Her effective altruism work touches the FTX collapse only through the wider EA community, with no financial link to Sam Bankman-Fried.

We cover the FTX context because readers researching her philanthropy will meet it.